rescue mission + outer planet mod = help!

[catonthekbd]

I accepted a contract to rescue a Kerbal, and return him home in 20 years.

Then I went to the tracking station to find him, and zoomed out, and out, and out, and ....

I put together a probe, and sent it into solar orbit. Then got MJ to give me an intercept. Over 20 years just to get there!

Is this contract possible at all? How would I plan the intercept? I have about half the tech tree available at the moment. Getting the rest will cost 66000 science!

 

 

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[bewing]

Well, it's gonna be bad. Mostly likely, you will fail the contract.

Do you have a vast overabundance of deltaV on this rescue ship? You're probably going to want to use a gravity assist to get you to a good high speed. Forget about a Hohmann transfer. Obviously, you need to get there in less than 10 years. Which means you need to travel at twice the optimal speed. And then back again.

 

[catonthekbd]

Yep

I think I found a route to the other rescue contract - plane change, retro burn to bring Perigree as far inside Moho as I can without overheating, then intercept burn at perigree

that reduced 12 year trip to 9.5 year, but looking at 20k - 30k dV !

many thanks